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	Evolution of the horse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The evolution of the horse involves the gradual development of the modern horse from the fox-sized, forest-dwelling Hyracotherium.
		Horses belong to an order known as the Perissodactyls, or "odd-toed ungulates", which all share hoofed feet and an odd number of toes on each foot, as well as mobile upper lips and a similar tooth structure.
		The horse's evolutionary lineage became a common feature of biology textbooks, and the sequence of transitional fossils was assembled by the American Museum of Natural History into an exhibit which emphasized the gradual, "straight-line" evolution of the horse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Evolution_of_the_Horse (3094 words)

	Horse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horses and other equids are odd-toed ungulates of the order Perissodactyla, a relatively ancient group of browsing and grazing animals that first arose less than 10 million years after the dinosaurs became extinct.
		Horse evolution was characterized by a reduction in the number of toes, from five per foot, to three per foot, to only one toe per foot (late Miocene 5.3 million years ago); essentially, the animal was standing on tiptoe.
		Horses can be mounted bareback with a vault from the ground or by grabbing the mane to provide leverage as a rider makes a small jump and scrambles up onto the horse's back (an awkward but popular method used by children).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horse (5871 words)

	Evolution of the Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Nature's selection of horses for survival, evolved an animal of tenfold greater stature than the ancestor; only the central digit of the feet was retained and the teeth and jaws were modified to consume harsher food.
		The Eocene horse attained the size of a modern fox, carried itself on the four digits of the hands or fore feet and on the three of the hind feet, and had almost omnivorous - like teeth.
		The principal evolution of the horse occurred on the plains east of America's Sierras.
	www.amherst.edu /~pratt/education/horse.html (558 words)

	Horse Evolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Evolution does not occur in a straight line toward a goal, like a ladder; rather, evolution is like a branching bush, with no predetermined goal.
		We only have the impression of straight-line evolution because only one genus happens to still be alive, which deceives some people into thinking that that one genus was somehow the "target" of all the evolution.
		Evolution takes place in the real world, with diverse rates and modes, and cannot be reduced to a single, simple process.
	home.austarnet.com.au /stear/horse_evolution.htm (1102 words)

	Horse Evolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Eohippus, one of the earliest horse ancestors, nicknamed the "Dawn horse", was the size of a fox or small to medium sized dog.
		Unfortunately for horses and horse lovers the slaughter houses are still brimming with business as there are still places in the world where horse meat is considered a delicacy.
		Horses are usually proportionate to their size and leg length whereas a pony is usually stocky in build and short legged.
	members.tripod.com /cavanaughc/horse_evolution.htm (1814 words)

	Horse Evolution evolve eohippus Hyracotherium mesohippus Merychippus pliohippus equus
		The Evolution of the Horse as commonly shown in many textbooks was proven wrong over 40 years ago.
		The okapi is not a horse (or relative of the horse) at all.
		Horses and every other animal have degenerated from the time God created them perfect to the present time in which they are cursed.
	www.angelfire.com /mi/dinosaurs/horse.html (1060 words)

	Origin of the Horse-Evolution
		Meanwhile, across the sea, horses were becoming a fixture of many ancient civilizations, and establishing their place in human history.
		Horses had become a part of human life.
		It wasn't until 1500 A.D. that the horse was reintroduced to North America when the Spanish came to conquer the New World in the 16th Century.
	net.unl.edu /artsFeat/wildhorses/wh_origin/wh_origin.html (572 words)

	Evolution Is Dead! :: Darwin In The News! :: New Horse Fancy from National Geographic ...
		One important subject in the origin of mammals is the myth of the "evolution of the horse," also a topic to which evolutionist publications have devoted a considerable amount of space for a long time.
		Until recently, an imaginary sequence supposedly showing the evolution of the horse was advanced as the principal fossil evidence for the theory of evolution.
		The popularly told example of horse evolution, suggesting a gradual sequence of changes from four-toed fox-sized creatures living nearly 50 million years ago to today's much larger one-toed horse, has long been known to be wrong.
	www.evolutionisdead.com /darwin.php?did=008 (968 words)

	Evolution -- Horse Transitional Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The artwork depicting horse evolution is from Professor Donald Levin's course in BioEvolution at the University of Texas in Austin.
		Horse species did not always come into being by gradual transformation (anagenesis) of their ancestors; instead, sometimes new species split off from ancestors (cladogenesis) and then co-existed with those ancestors for some time.
		The evolution of horses was not a steady ladder of progress.
	hometown.aol.com /darwinpage/horses.htm (325 words)

	Horse Evolution Over 55 Million Years
		But there is a horse FAQ because we have such a huge collection of horse fossils, and because the pieces of the puzzle fit together so well.
		That suggests that the ancestors of the modern horse didn't have a hoof.
		But in fact the horse family tree is enormous, and no one path through the tree is representative of all that went on.
	chem.tufts.edu /science/evolution/HorseEvolution.htm (1204 words)

	Creation Bits Number 24
		His main problem with the horse series is that the original fossils are not available -- everything on display is a reproduction, and there's no way of knowing which bones were really found and which were added from imagination.
		To put the argument another way, if horses and donkeys were only known by their fossils, they might well be classified as variants within a single species, but the experience of breeders shows that, in fact, they are separate species.
		The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky, and ironically, we have fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.
	www.rae.org /bits24.htm (1122 words)

	TEXTBOOK FRAUD: Hyracotherium "dawn horse" eohippus, mesohippus, meryhippus
		The evolution of horses is a progressive adaptation of originally unspecialized mammals to life on the plains, where grasses are the principal food and predators a constant menace.
		Horse Evolution: We have already referred to the evolution of horses in connection with the rate of evolutionary change and in an incidental way in the general account of the Cenozoic era.
		The evolution of the family is given here in some-what greater detail to illustrate further the pattern of survival, the force of selection, and also to supply a sort of comparative calendar of events against which the evolution of the primates, including man, can be more clearly seen.
	www.bible.ca /tracks/textbook-fraud-dawn-horse-eohippus.htm (9776 words)

	The Evolution of the Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		As the biologist Heribert-Nilsson said, ‘The family tree of the horse is beautiful and continuous only in the textbooks’, and the famous paleontologist Niles Eldredge called the textbook picture ‘lamentable and ‘a classical case of paleontologic museology'.
		By the 1920's it was becoming clear that the evolution of the horse was much more complicated than Marsh presented in his model.
		When asked about the horse series, Paleontologist Niles Eldredge commented, “There have been an awful lot of stories, some more imaginative than others, about what the nature of that history [of life] really is. The most famous example, still on exhibit downstairs, is the exhibit on horse evolution prepared perhaps fifty years ago.
	www.creationevolution.net /evolution_of_the_horse.htm (2355 words)

	What about the evolutio of the horse?
		Hyrocotherium (eohippus), supposedly the earliest, founding member of the horse evolution series, is not connected by intermediate fossils to the condylarths from which it supposedly evolved.
		Merychippus, the next genus in the supposed horse evolution series, and the first of the (large) "new horses," was about 50 percent larger than the group of genera just discussed.
		To summarize, the alleged horse evolution series actually appears to be three groups of genera.
	www.carm.org /evo_questions/horsevolution.htm (1599 words)

	"Evolution" of the Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Horse fossils have been used for years by naturalists to “prove” evolution.
		D. Two modern horses are found in the fossil record at the same level as the earliest types.
		Deperet states: "The supposed pedigree of the Equidae (horses, asses, zebras) is a deceitful delusion which...
	www.straight-talk.net /evolution/horse.htm (202 words)

	KECIRO HOMESCHOOL Bay City
		As more fossils were uncovered, the chain splayed out into the usual phylogenetic net, and it was all too apparent that evolution had not been in a straight line at all.
		Unfortunately, before the picture was completely clear, an exhibit of horses as an example had been set up at the American Museum of Natural History [in New York City], photographed, and much reproduced in elementary textbooks."—*Garrett Hardin, Nature and Man’s Fate (1960), pp.
		THE HORSE "STORY", Colin Patterson, Senior Paleontologist British Museum of Natural History, "There have been an awful lot of stories, some more imaginative than others, about what the nature of that history [of life] really is. The most famous example, still on exhibit downstairs, is the exhibit on horse evolution prepared perhaps fifty years ago.
	kecirohomeschool.com /horseevolution.htm (506 words)

	Evolution of the Hackney Horse
		The foundation of this breed began in England with the tradition of trotting horses.
		Hackney horses were imported by Canada, Argentina and the United States to be used as fancy carriage horses.
		Interest in driving began to decrease between the 2 World Wars due to the increased use of the automobile and during World War II it was felt that the breed was heading toward extinction since the Hackney was viewed as a specialist show animal.
	www.netpets.com /horses/horsclub/descriptions/hackney.html (946 words)

	So called Horse Evolution
		They all the a 4 toes one their front feet and 3 toes on the back as well as many other similarities that show them to be the same kind of animal.
		Pliohippus, Dinohippus and Equus are varieties of the horse kind, much like the variety among cat and dogs.
		Horse Evolution evolve eohippus hyracotherium mesohippus merychippus pliohippus equus
	genesismission.4t.com /transition/Horses.html (278 words)

	Fossil Horses FAQs
		This widely inaccurate creationist article claims that horse evolution is a fraud.
		orses are a common and instructive example of evolution recorded in the fossil record.
		This companion file to the Transitional Fossils FAQ summarizes what is known about horse evolution.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/horses (202 words)

	Did horses evolve from a small fox-like animal? - ChristianAnswers.Net
		O.C. Marsh commented on living horses with multiple toes, and said there were cases in the American Southwest where "both fore and hind feet may each have two extra digits fairly developed, and all of nearly equal size, thus corresponding to the feet of the extinct Protohippus".
		Finally, when evolutionists assume that the horse has grown progressively in size over millions of years, what they forget is that modern horses vary enormously in size.
		The number of toes in foreleg and hind leg supposedly decreased as the horse evolved, and the size supposedly increased from a small doglike horse to a large modern horse.
	www.christiananswers.net /q-aig/aig-c016.html (1066 words)

	All About The Evolution of The Horse
		The horse is one of the oldest forms of mammal dating back more
		horse ancestors, nicknamed the "Dawn horse", was the size of a
		todays horses is what is left of the once fourth toe.
	petcaretips.net /evolution-of-horse.html (1308 words)

	Horse Evolution Followed Twisty Trail, Study Says
		The horse has been invaluable to humans since it was first domesticated in Central Asia some 6,000 years ago.
		Less well known is the important role played by horses in shaping our understanding of a much deeper history—long-term evolution in animals.
		Later fossil discoveries in the 20th century suggested the evolution of modern-day Equus (the genus that includes domesticated horses, zebras, donkeys, and asses) was far more complex.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2005/03/0317_050317_horseevolution.html (519 words)

	Stablemade Horse Care And Breeds Of Horses
		All publications are listed on the "Contents" page except on horse feeding and breeds of horses.
		Please check directly the "horse feeding" page for articles published about various horse feeds and feeding techniques.
		Please, check directly the "Horse Breeds Origins" page for articles on the origin of various breeds of horses.
	horsecare.stablemade.com (221 words)

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